is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments, and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. When James Muriuki decided to get his own place in Nairobi, it would take him 3 months of looking at one terrible house after another. It wasn’t his first time facing housing issues. He’d had a taste of the struggle as a child. Now he wants to solve this problem with his startup Kijiji. This is his life in tech. James Muriuki grew up in Nairobi with his mother and his elder sister, Lucy. Before they moved to a house his mother built, the family lived in three rented apartments.